Half Life

“Ingenious, sensual, gleeful. . . . It demands of its readers only imagination, and rewards them with hilarity, terror, and marvels.”--Jonathan Lethem, author of Motherless Brooklyn

Nora and Blanche are cojoined twins. Nora, the dominant twin, thirsts for love and adventure, while Blanche has been asleep for nearly 30 years. Determined to shed herself of her her sister's dead weight, Nora leaves for London in search of the mysterious Unity Foundation, which promises to make two one.

But once Nora arrives in London, the past begins to surface, forcing her into a most reluctant voyage into memory--a search for meaning and understanding, that will push Nora to the brink of insanity. Grotesque, funny, and dazzlingly told, Shelley Jackson's first novel is an imaginative and touching portrait of two lives in a cleft world yearning for wholeness.

Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 07/03/2007
Pages: 448
Weight: 0.7lbs
Size: 8.02h x 5.34w x 1.05d
ISBN: 9780060882365


Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 08/26/2007 pg. 24

About the Author
Jackson, Shelley: -

Shelley Jackson is the author of the short story collection The Melancholy of Anatomy, the hypertext novel Patchwork Girl, several children's books, and Skin, a story published in tattoos on the skin of more than two thousand volunteers. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.